Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many academies whose funding arrangements with the Secretary of State required their teachers to have Qualified Teacher Status have applied to have this requirement removed since 27 July 2012; and how many such applications have been (a) rejected and (b) accepted.

The Education Funding Agency has received 34 requests from schools with academy status to amend their funding agreement to enable them to employ teachers without qualified teacher status. All of these applications were accepted.

2320 academies had funding arrangements with the Secretary of State requiring them to only employ teachers with QTS since 2009. This represents 46 per cent of the 5043 academies that were open on 1 July 2015.